Understanding Cultural Humility In US Healthcare
Communication between physicians and patients presents an issue for one in five individuals receiving healthcare in the United States...
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Synnie Cao
- Dec 23, 2022
- 4 min
Uninsured, Sick, and Afraid: Realities of Undocumented Immigrants
In recent years, the idea of universal health care has gained global momentum, with many countries adopting this model as a national...
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Anabelle Bean
- Dec 23, 2022
- 3 min
How California is Battling AI Discrimination in Healthcare
In the past several decades, there has been a sharp rise in the use of AI technologies across many leading industries — and for good...
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Robin Hall
- Dec 23, 2022
- 4 min
Period Poverty & COVID-19
Unclean water, inadequate sanitation, and lack of menstrual hygiene products are only a few of the challenges that women and girls living...
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Aindri Patra
- Dec 23, 2022
- 4 min
Sex Difference Research: Neurosexism or Necessary?
“A gendered world will produce a gendered brain,” Gina Rippon, a British neuroscientist, proclaims. Famous for her books, The Gendered...
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Esha Pisipati
- Jul 1, 2022
- 5 min
Injustices in the Justice System
500%. That is the increase of prisoners in the US prison system over the last 40 years, totaling two million people (The Sentencing...
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Danielle Smith
- Jul 1, 2022
- 4 min
Impact of Medical Illustrations Disparities on Patient Outcomes
In considering medical discrimination, researchers typically take a micro-level approach that focuses on the biases of individual...
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Nathaniel Salgado
- Jul 1, 2022
- 5 min
The Two Percents: Disparities in Medical Malpractice Trials
Heart-warming stories of miracle babies’ triumphs over sickle cell disease, nephritis being magically cured overnight, or patients...
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Chris Cizmeciyan
- Jul 1, 2022
- 4 min
Monopolistic Prescription Drug Price Practices
The perverse increased cost of prescription drugs in the United States by drug manufacturers harms people, especially when they are most...
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Shruti Nagpal
- Jul 1, 2022
- 4 min
The Forgotten Girls of Globalization
Globalization is a phenomenon that dominates our world today, especially in the clothing industry. Large fashion companies, such as...
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Kaitlyn Lee
- Jun 30, 2022
- 4 min
Who Lives and Dies: Breast Cancer’s Social Determinants
Breast cancer is the most common cancer amongst women— making up 30% of cancer that women are diagnosed with [1, 2]. It is very likely...
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Alaka M. Basu
- Jun 30, 2022
- 3 min
The Gendered Male is an Endangered Male
The discipline of Gender Studies continues to be frequently synonymous with Women’s Studies. This is particularly regrettable in the...
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James Oh
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
Telemedicine: a Prospective Solution to High-cost Healthcare
As medical professionals of all fields face persistent medical pressure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is paramount that the healthcare...
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Vincent Zhang
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
Is Physician Burnout Because of Specialty Average Salary?
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to overload hospitals and overwhelm healthcare staff across the nation [1], the epidemic of physician...
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Aleks Cornforth
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
Disparities in Healthcare Finance: Rural vs Urban Support
In the United States, there are widespread disparities in access to medical advancement or care based on geographical region....
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Vivian Ding
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
Climate Change on Vector Borne Diseases
Global warming proves to be a persistent problem in our current world. The August U.N. climate change report stated that, optimistically,...
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Yoojin Jung
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
The Racial Gap in Healthcare Among Older Adults
Healthy living should be equally accessible to all individuals. Unfortunately, there seems to be a consistent, problematic trend in the...
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Vikash Sabharwal
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
Stories and History as Tools in Global Health
As she stared into the funeral pyre, she imagined what could have been if her village had a doctor readily available on the day of her...
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Sharon Ng
- Dec 12, 2021
- 3 min
Stigma and Medicaid: A Struggle for Health Equity
Before the expansion of Medicaid, the inability to afford health insurance proved to be one of the largest barriers to healthcare for...
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Athira Lalu
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
Injustice in Genomic Research
The Kalaupapa Peninsula lies hidden on the north coast of the island of Molokai, niched into a 2,000-foot sea cliff wall and surrounded...
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